 | Chemistry - 1902 - 446 pages
...the unit of force, unit of work, unit of acceleration, etc. They employ the centimeter-gram-second, or, in abbreviation, the cgs system, in which the...hesitated to introduce the decimal fraction of a day the -jj1^ part in order to preserve the duodecimal fraction -jg-jj-j,- part; the system as thus known is... | |
 | Chemistry - 1902 - 448 pages
...the unit of force, unit of work, unit of acceleration, etc. They employ the centimeter-gram-second, or, in abbreviation, the cgs system, in which the...But here the reform is not complete ; the first two unite pertain to the metric system, while as to the third, the unit of time, they hesitated to introduce... | |
 | John Oren Reed - Physics - 1902 - 336 pages
...Such a system of units is called an absolute system. In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram, and the unit of time is the second. This is usually called the CGS system. The centimeter is... | |
 | John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther - Physics - 1910 - 298 pages
...Such a system of units is called an absolute system. In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram and the unit of time is the second. This is usually called the c. G. s. system. The corresponding... | |
 | John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guthe - Physics - 1911 - 670 pages
...Such a system of units is called an absolute system. In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram and the unit of time is the tecond. This is usually called the c. G. s. system. The corresponding... | |
 | John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guthe - Physics - 1911 - 658 pages
...Such a system of units is called an absolute system. In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the yram and the unit of time is the second. This is usually culled the c. GS system. The corresponding... | |
 | John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther - Physics - 1911 - 296 pages
...Sucli a system of units is called an absolute system. In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram and the unit of time is the second. This is usually called the o. G. s. system. The corresponding... | |
 | William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1917 - 1280 pages
...the middle line of the usable road.8 CENTIMETER-GRAM-SEOOND SYSTEM. A system of units for measurement in which the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass the ¿rani, and the unit of time one second.10 It is commonly abbreviated to "CGS"11 CENTRAL. At or... | |
 | Woodford Agee Heflin - Aeronautics - 1966 - 172 pages
...missile.' Cf. code designation. cgs (ahhrl 'Centimeter — gram — second.' This abbreviation designates a system in which the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram, and the unit of time is the mean solar second. Used, for example, in defining the constant of... | |
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In the system in common use among scientific men the unit of length is the centimeter, the unit of mass is the gram and the unit of time is the second. This is usually called the c. 
